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...during a stop at Lamont last week, Hung wasquick to call the typewriter's product"unacceptable" pointing to her stack of manilaenvelopes sporting wavy, smudged addresses...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Computer Age Can't Kill the Typewriter | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

Because Widener Library is internationally renowned and has the world's largest open-stack collection, Loker's contribution "is something that will affect learning across the world," said President Neil L. Rudenstine at the ceremony...

Author: By Bree Z. Tollinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reading Room Named For Library Benefactor | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...read the immediate future of his company written in empty shipping containers. He watches cargo ships steam into the harbor laden with products from Asia. These containers would normally return to Asia full of American products. But now those goods are too expensive in Asia, so the containers stack up on the dock, harbingers of a recession. "It hasn't got to our level yet," says Laney. "But it will. We know it's coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Report: The Coming Storm | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...with the dreads / I remember when I hid from the feds / plus I always did what I said / I was gonna do / talk sh*t right in front of you / never forfeit, on top / we do it non-stop, with more jewels than a pawn shop." The rhymes just stack up one on top of the other, as brother Mos Def said...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brand New Nubian | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Pollard took reams of classified material each weekend to an Israeli-occupied apartment, where agents churned it through a photocopier. After 18 months, he had brought enough paper to make a stack 6 ft. high, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. While Pollard apparently didn't ask for money up front, once he began spying, the Israelis paid him $2,500 monthly. Then there were the trips to Europe and a $7,000 diamond ring for Anne, whom Pollard divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Traitor, Israel's Patriot | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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